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KATYTXHUNTER

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I know its not much to go on but I was hoping the ridge line in the center might be a tell tale ID feature?  Found along the lower Brazos river. 

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bone2stone Regular Member

bone2stone

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Will you be going to Fossilmania?

Lots of stuff & other fossil pickers to meet.

Some pretty good bar b que locally as well.

 

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Harry Pristis Regular Member

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The bone fragment is a section of a cannon bone.  A cannon bone is comprised of two fused metapodials.  The ridge down the center represents the fused contact of the two bones.  Cannon bones are found in cervids, equids,  bovids, and camelids (and others, no doubt).  Your fragment looks like it might be from a deer or possibly a horse.

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  • I found this Informative 2

http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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